{"id":2752,"date":"1998-09-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1998-09-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/1998\/09\/28\/mmondegreens-comments\/"},"modified":"2018-06-08T18:43:01","modified_gmt":"2018-06-09T01:43:01","slug":"mmondegreens-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/1998\/09\/28\/mmondegreens-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"MM: The Ants Are My Friends (Reader Comments and Addenda)"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\n<p>Joe Robins provides a pointer to another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kissthisguy.com\/\">archive of misheard lyrics<\/a> that I hadn't previously known about. It includes entertaining stories about how the submitters found out they were wrong.<\/p>\r\n<p>I forgot to mention some other items I misheard for years:<\/p>\r\n<dl><dt>Where the wild mountain Ty rose around the blue wind Heather...<\/dt>\r\n  <dd>Really: Where the wild mountain thyme grows around the blooming heather...<\/dd>\r\n  <dd>(\"Wild Mountain Thyme\" as performed by the Clancy Brothers)<\/dd>\r\n<p \/>\r\n  <dt>Where the white man does as he pleases, as he walks to the guillotine.<\/dt>\r\n  <dd>Really: Where the white man does as he pleases, as he wants to, as he pleases.<\/dd>\r\n  <dd>Nanci Griffith, \"Deadwood, South Dakota\"<\/dd>\r\n<p \/>\r\n  <dt>Ana Ng and I argue and all, but...<\/dt>\r\n  <dd>Really: Ana Ng and I <em>are<\/em> getting old, but...<\/dd>\r\n  <dd>They Might Be Giants, \"Ana Ng\"<\/dd>\r\n<\/dl><p>Craig Kasper checks in with an intentional Mondegreen:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p class=\"stanza\">Blue moon<br \/>\r\nUsed all my stand-in's cologne<br \/>\r\nNow he's not reading my part<br \/>\r\nNow he's got one of his own.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>I guess it's more a parody or filk than a Mondegreen, but it's close enough to the original to be Mondegreenish, and I thought it was entertaining enough to mention.<\/p>\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<p>(Last updated: 10 January 1999)<\/p>\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/1998\/09\/27\/mmondegreens\/\">Back to column MM<\/a><\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4-uuppercase-2","category-mondegreens-mishearings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2752"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3390,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2752\/revisions\/3390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}